Commemorating Air France 447 victims by Claudia Sonea

One year has passed since 228 people lost their lives in the crash of Air France Flight 447. A memorial service was held at the Parc Floral in Paris in the presence of more than 1000 peoples, relatives and friends of the victims and a monument inscribed with 228 swallows was inaugurated at the French capital's renowned Pere Lachaise cemetery. The magnitude of the tragedy was reflected in the fact that the ceremony was translated into 15 languages and a rabbi, a priest, a pastor and an imam joined hands in commemorating the departed. In mourn and sorrow people were united leaving aside all prejudice regarding color, natio! nality or religion. Verdi's Requiem performed by Air France choir lifted to the sky taking the message to those who are now resting in Heaven. Families of those who perished in the crash are grieving and try to move on, but there will remain always the question of what happened? When they will see a plane, when they will travel by plane, there will be the constant fear that the unknown enemy that caused the malfunction that remained in the history of aviation as the deadliest accident. Finding an answer will not bring back their loved ones, but it will offer comfort and they will sleep better. Air France Flight 447 is however a mystery who investigators cannot solve, in spite of spending over €13 million on search to retrieve the "black box", the flight recorders. Mainly it is suspected that the failure came from the ports that should have measured the airspeed. There is also the suspicion that BEA, Airbus! and Air France are holding back the truth because the cause i! s someth ing they have encountered before.

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